R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX (remixworx) is a space for the remixing of digital media, including visual poetry (vispo), electronic poetry (flashpo), playable media, animation, music, spoken word, texts and more. In New Directions in Digital Poetry, Chris Funkhouser describes the project as “a particularly impressive display of cannibalism-by-design.” He goes on to say: Beyond the high quality of the artworks, [...]

“Cordite 36: Electronica has been a fascinating and challenging issue to put together. It contains forty new poems, fifteen spoken word tracks, a dozen features and, for the first time, a selection of multimedia or ‘e-lit’ works. Bringing together these disparate types of content raises an interesting question for Cordite as an online journal. Have [...]

Rememori is a degenerative memory game and playable poem that grapples with the effects of dementia on an intimate circle of characters. Play-read or read-play, however you approach it and whoever you identify with, you’ll become entangled in a struggle for accurate recall, attention and the search for meaning. Inevitably, it’s a contrary game – [...]

Bournemouth University’s Media School is delighted to announce the second annual prize for new media writing. The prize encourages writers working with new media to showcase their skills, provoke discussion and raise awareness of new media writing, the future of the ‘written’ word and storytelling. The prize is split into two categories: student and professional. [...]

So much history is buried beneath our feet, and histories buried in other ways, by forgetfulness or disregard. If you live in a former mining area in Britain, that history is deep underground. Evidence of the coal mines have been erased from the landscape, swept away in less than a generation. Deeper still in the past there’s [...]

Performing at Inspace and my Underbelly Cabinet of Curios For my performance of Underbelly in Edinburgh, UK, on Halloween at Inspace no one can hear you scream I intend to wear shoes as red as wounds. Why? Because Underbelly, my work of playable media fiction, is an exploration of women's bodies in relation to the [...]

The first challenge is: viivakoodi, barcode, código de parras, codice a barre… Time for a Vispo is a new blog run by Finnish visual poet, Satu Kaikkonen, where she gives a weekly challenge to create a vispo. The 1. challenge, issued by Satu on Monday 28 June, was barcode. It’s always good to have an [...]

Strange things can happen to the reader when printed matter unlocks digital delights! In early June an international collection of e-literature was installed in a gallery setting in downtown Providence (Rhode Island, USA) for the Arts Program of the Electronic Literature Organization 2010 Conference (ELO_AI), including my own piece, Underbelly. There were many wonderful works [...]

Remixworx is a collaborative blog for creative digital media remixing, started by Randy Adams (aka runran) in November 2006. To date there are 429 posts – i.e. remixes of audio, Flash animations, digital images, visual poetry, texts… but there are many more remixes scattered throughout the comments areas. We’ve lost count, but there must be [...]

Underbelly is my latest playable media fiction, created in Flash. It’s about a woman sculptor, carving on the site of a former colliery in the north of England. As she carves, she is disturbed by a medley of voices, along with her ticking biological clock, and the player/reader is plunged into an underworld of the [...]

Call for Presentations Transliteracy Conference Tuesday 9 February 2010, 9:30 – 17:30 Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre, Leicester, UK In association with the Institute of Creative Technologies & the NLab Small Business Network,  De Montfort University www.transliteracy.com/conference2010.html Deadline for Abstracts:  1 December, 2009 Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range [...]

The Transliteracy Research Group is a research-focussed think-tank and creative laboratory, based at De Montfort University, UK, led by Sue Thomas and Kate Pullinger, who extend an invitation to join in developing this new field of academic research: Since transliteracy research began at DMU in 2005 under the umbrella of PART (Production & Research in [...]